serfing USA

The adage – The more things change, the more they stay the same – is apropos for America and its history. From the time the nation was British America, up through today, issues have revolved: a vicious cycle of repeat, with no outcomes achieved other than unending cycles of repetition. And legislators, those entrusted by the people with improving their everyday lives under the guise of the Constitution, have participated all too well in a system of deception and obfuscation. Their endgame, bringing full circle what has been to what will be, along with a desire to enrich themselves with power and money at the expense of those they swore to defend and protect. Ever wonder why nothing in Congress ever improves, but devolves, while old becomes new, even after party power’s change through continual election cycles.

An example: initially, there were two classes of men: gentlemen and commoner. The affluent class known as “gentlemen” had others who worked, thereby supporting them, allowing the gentlemen the opportunity to experience the blessings of life, or, if desired, participate in and decide the issues of government at hand. The other class, the commoner – worked his entire life to survive while funding the gentleman’s desires, relying on his benevolence for pay, and if serving in office, his agenda, in regard to the Constitution. The societal oddity, the business owner with employees. Although, if he worked, income irrelevant – still a commoner. At the time, their intent was to obtain gentleman class, thus having others work for them, supporting them. The fundamental myth: belief in the gentlemen working to improve the overall.

Then women, no class system, nor power. Their importance; dictated through marriage, although, no voice, no vote. But the degradation of human life continued; the slave, mostly owned by the gentlemen class, and the “merciless Indian savage” (Declaration of Independence). Leaving the Indian aside, on the slave plight, they were considered property, not persons, while estimates range from one up to twenty-five percent of the white population having owned another human until the institution was abolished in 1865, having pushed past a pre-set date of 1808. Although, while in effect, a financial bounty for those who partook. Problem is, no one ever discusses blacks owning blacks, or the countrymen who’d captured and sold to the slave traders, their own countrymen, at times, becoming what they’d caught and sold – a slave. Actual truth inconvenient, pushed to the recesses, agenda overruling intent. And much less discussed, the entire history of slavery, its origins, or the diverseness of other societies that held humans in captivity, the benefit of a people-pool for inhumane uses that continue to this day.

Yet slavery, and the Constitution’s intent to correct, even though the Framer’s acquiesced, prompting secession and a Civil War. In life, human nature sometimes struggles to stand on the side of right, especially when money and power are at stake. The Framer’s knew the cost of correction upfront, the nation would have broken into smaller confederacies had they not compromised, the effect destroying the whole. Yet today, legislators believe compromise is the better to gain while blaming our forebears for having done what they strive for today. Make-believing others to believe their interest is in the best-interest, truth an oxymoron, fully dependent on agenda:

Might not some surprise also be expressed, that those who reproach the Southern States with the barbarous policy of considering as property a part of their human brethren, should themselves contend, that the government to which all the States are to be parties, ought to consider this unfortunate race more completely in the unnatural light of property … (Federalist 54)

But understand, the Framer’s initial intent was to abolish. My point, a reason of purpose. To go full circle, one only need turn to the Declaration of Independence to see word fallacy belying the actions of belief:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The importance of the Declaration in its moment, not including historically and for future posterity did not fully manifest until the signatories were becoming fewer in number. Thomas Jefferson, the author, knowing death would claim, claimed the document his greatest work. But his life actions did not represent his pen, while the Framer’s individually and in general struggled conceptually with “created equal.” Some professed human differences dispelled, evolving to where today, agenda is to create a society of parity – unachievable by any standard. The Framer’s belief wasn’t Panglossian in their desire to form a new nation from the ashes of the old, but a society, the antithesis of anything before. What it would eventually become, dependent on those sworn to uphold and protect. To note, under the Articles of Confederation, there was no Federal head:

Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter will readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments - and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country … (Federalist 1)

While the pages of history turned, and generational chapters ended, the nation evolved. No longer would there only be two classes, gentlemen, and commoner, but three classes: elite, middle-class, and poverty. In time, the middle-class would itself evolve, becoming upper/lower, highlighting four classes of citizens. And the two-tiered middle-class would become a powerful voice. Except, power equals strength, implying force, and pursuant to the Constitution, the essence of WE THE PEOPLE:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed … (Declaration of Independence)

The Framer’s design of those entrusted to govern, to govern according to the people’s will. Yet, in human nature, power surrendered implies weakness, the antithesis of strength, or the will of government, if required through force, to control the people, achieving autarchy: to absolutely control those who were to control, antithetical to constitutional intent. Our government’s desired outcome, a two-tiered society – rich and poor, all three branches: executive, legislative, judicial, complicit to the takeover of WE THE PEOPLE. The Federal head, harkening back to when British America was, and the Magna Charta didn’t apply. And with the Constitution dead, the document irrelevant to their agenda of deceit. The final result: WE THE PEOPLE, the majority of, becoming slaves, oppressed through, and beholding to the desires of the elite. Old becoming new … again.